Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdd4a5a3181a5973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 10:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 278a7d9cf083b9b8c0531f5993c8ae72 SHA-1: 4ba2ac24c5a0162f7b99d09984f3ee4b7f4f58df SHA-256: fdd4a5a3181a597346f95279c4e261333837c64baf1eef7fa3b40d759f906121
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, redirecting to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9891

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamental+methods+of+mathematical+economics+4th+edition+solution+pdf
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/61917069844.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l5emeh4do0f204eh7moj4ir6t/91146053684.pdf
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/nonitikupopokupamod.pdf
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/87151106508.pdf
    • http://familiesforfamilies.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/xefisej.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63ac10de67022a30eda70283e807477/pozidudofebujoguzopu.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cu65sbhl91hmn54v88qu965bk/69927126096.pdf
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/201417595941.pdf
    • http://chhsclassof70.com/clients/1/1f/1f6d1b94cf555b90b9f410dfa82aea5f/File/76550437102.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vdlmf3f6sr7n0siktm6eh217s/nesojumip.pdf
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b1dd03647ffccb222d05e0efd7dc2b6/86165358753.pdf
    • https://adreshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/39582313208.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b549105c000f8bf9f7d326ee8e22fe2/nisirisumijukenuwawi.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a089cc042d46fc92b79bc3af2e3d7568/44037468686.pdf
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1bbhsgmlqb85ld2jg3vc7d28p/gafenez.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/sijimuziwapumu.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/39977459883.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gqod8at1l2vq6iom2d89trmd4/64876449318.pdf
    • http://radissonhoteltraining.com/userfiles/file/50498523579.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f83f0dbbefb5e0179416907aa56cec4/55513049387.pdf
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/58793629290.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608477921cf09---dowarero.pdf
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6239c4432a43f2f2c2c5d9fd6137fb3f/6913121408.pdf
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/77838739539.pdf
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d239124ee2d---papozilafodujaxu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000134a8.bin
34bb3a8adf6b05b883dd6dd5988961e770d0095b708ecbf5c93edbea9c40ea79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134A8 1456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013caa.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000154c1.bin
48eee5665b156c3692447c00a3d21737b07dbb129d8e980ef29eea3a8588076c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154C1 10940 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00016df0.bin
b1ef7b52ed35dfd01120c19ee4193d967dc828f2fc549fe1a2d8c3c5029b4647
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DF0 16244 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off000183d8.bin
424b9470b9271352399cf5075290e8d101433483097216df596b51f4a2c3023b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x183D8 21872 bytes